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“I think it gave Michael a chance to be celebrated for the genius he was without all the other stuff in the way,” Jay-Z writes, “and I don’t know if that would ever have happened had he been alive.”

Shawn Carter also mentions the little-known fact that Jackson sang on the remix of “Girls, Girls, Girls” back in 2001, which went mostly unnoticed because MJ wasn’t credited on the single. But take a listen to the song below—once you know what to expect, you can totally tell it’s Michael’s silky voice on the hook.

“I remember him calling me and him just talking about, you know, ‘syncopation’ and musician stuff like that,” Jay-Z says at the end of his piece. “The Michael Jackson I knew was just a musician who loved music.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BP_SportsFreaks/ BP_SportsFreaks

    Is that BIG in the backround in pic #9?

  • http://thedailyparr.com/michael-jackson/posts-about-michael-jackson-as-of-october-7-2009-14/ Posts about Michael Jackson as of October 7, 2009 » The Daily Parr

    [...] about Michael Jackson as of October 7, 2009 Michael Jackson Sang Back Up For Jay-Z On “Girl, Girls, Girls” – theurbandaily.com 10/07/2009 From Entertainment Weekly “I think it gave Michael a chance [...]

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mr_GreenTeam/ Mr_GreenTeam

    Yea that BIG on some coogi shyt back there. I dont believe that’s mike singin that shyt. Why wouldn you credit him on a song. S**t dont add up. He could of sold 10 more million on the strenth. Blueprint1 was our shyt here in the NATI.
    -Diz Be $o$A G
    GTC on and on

  • http://www.michaeljacksonend.com/news/michael-jackson-sang-back-up-for-jay-z-on-%e2%80%9cgirl-girls-girls/ Michael Jackson Sang Back Up For Jay-Z On “Girl, Girls, Girls … | all about mj death

    [...] the rest here: Michael Jackson Sang Back Up For Jay-Z On “Girl, Girls, Girls … Share and [...]

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shoot4damoon/ shoot4damoon

    I can hear mike in the song now, but, I will say it was a smart move to not put his name on the credit at that time…too me mike is too big for hip hop tracks.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shoot4damoon/ shoot4damoon

    I can hear mike in the song now, but, I will say it was a smart move to not put his name on the credit at that time…to me mike is too big for hip hop tracks.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/F2daG/ F2daG

    yo I don’t hear mike at all in the background. you can’t tell anyway cuz the voice on the hook is high pitched anyway. yo come up with a better story BP cuz this is bulls**t! YO SHOUT OUT TO B.I.G IN PIC#9!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/da-mann/ da-mann

    Ok that is Big in pic 9… Now for Michael singing background…not sure about that… it actually sounds like a sample of his voice back in the 80′s… Because his voice in 2001 wasn’t quite like that in the track….. I have a feeling if that is his voice, they used some kind of techno trick and sampled his voice on that track….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Lega95/ Lega95

    Thats old news,I already knew that around the time Blueprint 1 came out that MJ was on the girls,girls,girls remix

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NOWHITEIN/ NOWHITEIN

    I COULD HAVE SWORN THAT SLICK RICK AND BIZ MARKIE SANG BACK UP ON THAT SONG. HELL, IT SOUNDED LIKE THEM AND THEY WERE IN THE VIDEO TO BOOT! LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/B_Boi_918/ B_Boi_918

    Dat aint mike

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/WindChimes/ WindChimes

    I’m still trying to figure out why Jay Z is even a celebrity. He has no rap skills nor talent. Hip hop really messed up Black music when it made these wack rappers the multi-millionnaires of the industry.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/moniQTee/ moniQTee

    wOw! Mike did a great job.

    @windchimes

    i hear ya on that. i think Jay z is okay,but i see what u are talking about and I understand what you mean.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/moniQTee/ moniQTee

    @ lega

    yea, this was mentioned YEARS ago.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Fly_Nigga/ Fly_Nigga

    i can’t really hear mike…but whatever i guess…..

    @windchimes…ur retarded

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trisha_369/ trisha_369

    HELL NO THATS NOT THE REAL MICHAEL JACKSON…JAY-Z GET THE F*CK OUT OF HERE,WITH THIS ONE. I HAVE BEEN A FAN SINCE DAY 1 OF MICHAEL JACKSON & GOT ALL HIS MUSIC FROM BACK IN 1965-UP UNTIL NOW. SO YOU CAN STOP TRYING TO COME OUT THE CLOSET,WITH THIS BULLSH*T…ACTING AS IF YOU AND MICHAEL WAS LIKE THAT…YOU JUST DON’T STOP DO YOU? FIRST IS WAS THE PRESIDENT ON SPEED DAIL AND NOW MICHAEL JACKSON ON BACK UP-WHOM YOU DIDN’T LET IT BE KNOWN-HE WAS ON IT. COME ON NOW-YOU WOULD HAVE AT-LEAST GOT COOL POINTS,FROM ME. I HATE WHEN N*GGAS TRY TO CLAIM MICHAEL JACKSON AFTER HIS DEATH…AS IF YA’LL WAS THE BEST OF FRIENDS. YOU AND DIDDY ARE TWO CLOWNS-TRYING TO MAKE A NAME OFF MICHAEL…YA’LL SHOULD BE ASHAME OF YOUR DAMN-SELF…YA’LL ARE F*CKING GREEDY OVER MONEY AND FAME. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO TALK SH*T ABOUT MY COMMENT-I REALLY DON’T GIVE A F*CK,ITS MY OPINION AND THE TRUTH…AS I SEE IT. SO-ASK YOURSELF(1)HAVE YOU EVER SAW MICHAEL JACKSON AND JAY-Z TOGETHER IN PUBLIC,ANY VIDEOS?(2) DID YOU SEE ANY INTERVIEWS,THAT HAD JAY-Z TALKING ABOUT MICHAEL,UNTIL NOW?(3)DID YOU SEE JAY-Z AT MICHAEL’S FUNERAL? (HEEEEEEEEEELL NOOOOOOO) AND WHY ADDRESS MICHAEL AS JUST A MUSICIAN WHO LOVED MUSIC? OUT OF RESPECT YOU SHOULD HAVE “ADDRESS” MICHAEL JACKSON AS A LEGEND<AN ICON<THE KING OF POP. ALL THE THINGS YOUR NOT IN MY BOOK…ONCE AGAIN THIS IS MY OPINION.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Bsmith23/ Bsmith23

    it sound like mike a lil bit sorta and rap music is garbage now, except outkast

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trisha_369/ trisha_369

    AND HELL NO NOT THAT FAKE A$$ PIC ABOVE DON’T COUNT. LMAO…THE THINGS GREEDY PEOPLE WILL DO FOR MORE-MONEY,FAME,AND POWER.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shenna34/ Shenna34

    NOPE

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/HandSmBlkMannFL/ HandSmBlkMannFL

    I find it EXTREMELY hard to believe that Michael would do a hip-hop track ESPECIALLY singing background for Jay-Z (damn I hate that big lip non-talented mofo). When I think of Michael singing background I think of that song with Rockwell “Somebody’s Watching Me”. You can hear Michael’s voice allllllllllllll through that song. Damn, must be bad when you got Jay-Z lying about a song that just flat out SUCKED anyway!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PhillyFinest22/ PhillyFinest22

    damn, a lot of Jay-Z haters. wonder how Jigga has no talent, but he has eleven #1 albums, that’s 11, that’s better than Elvis, and only 8 behind the Number 1 beatles. No rapper has more #1 Albums than Hov. $700 million clothing line and countless endeavors, and people have the nerve to say Hov isn’t talented, absurdity, just hating. But back to the topic at hand, that’s definitely Mike, just gotta be able to tell. i’m an artist myself, and it’s called changing the pitch, so that’s y it doesn’t sound like him. but it does, just from the way the background singer is singing, definitely Mike.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/theoster1/ theoster1

    naw that aint m .jackson nut i dont know

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/0VancouverHurts/ 0VancouverHurts

    I agree windchimes. Michael was the best part of the song!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Last_Revelation/ Last_Revelation

    there is no michael on this… yall r fools…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/marian_scooter/ marian_scooter

    cAn piPLE sToP tAkInG aBOUt MiChAel Ok….ALl ThE hOeS oK

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EASTSIDEFRESH99/ EASTSIDEFRESH99

    I ALWAYS LOVED THIS SONG AS SOON AS I HEARD IT AGAIN I KNEW IT WAS MIKE..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Cici_62/ Cici_62

    that is not no damn michael jackson. ya’ll kno jay-z doin a diddy. that nigga got tha power to basically do and say whatever and get away wit him cuz tha world treats him like royalty. michael jackson wasn’t singin no back up on that lame beat.. this nigga talkin bout syncopation n s**t lol come tha fukk on now =) niggas always trynna be down

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trisha_369/ trisha_369

    I DON’T CALL MYSELF HATING ON JAY-Z AND WHEN YOU SEND PEOPLE OUT TO BUY YOUR SH*T AND YOU PAY FOR IT JUST TO GET YOUR SALES UP…DO NOT MAKE YOU WORTH SH*T. ITS CALLED BUYING YOUR WAY TO THE TOP. O’YEAH AND KILL OUT,PEOPLE TO GET ON TOP OF THE GAME. NOMATTER HOW YOU PUT IT MONEY GOT JAY-Z WHERE HE IS AT TODAY-BUYING OUT OR UP EVERYTHING TO KNOCK OFF ANYONE ELSE…NOT HIS F*CKING MUSIC-JUST LIKE DIDDY. AND DON’T HE LOOK LIKE MASTER P IN THE PIC WITH MICHAEL? AND EVEN THAT PIC LOOK FAKE. THATS JUST MY OPINION.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Isla77092/ Isla77092

    lol gosh u people are really angry…wonder if u guys are THIS passionate about your OWN business….just curious

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mjlover81/ mjlover81

    I had no idea MJ was on this! Awesome! I love Mike forever!

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